Ken Hinkley

So what does he embody for you?

after the performance, and you have to try and explain to them, I thought Michael did an amazing job right through those first nine rounds to hold his head high and try and put some perspective into the performance, but the reality was 1-8 was always a troubling moment.

And that's exactly right.

That little clip there was perfect.

That's the reality.

One and eight is the scoreboard and the scoreboard always gets you.

Everyone knows that in footy and everyone who goes into coaching knows that.

If the scoreboard gets that bad, and I did hear 12 and 42 was what I think I heard at one stage too.

So ultimately there was just too big a gap between the wins and losses for the players.

for the Carlton hierarchy to continue with Michael.

I think it was untidy at the end of last year, let's be pretty clear.

There wasn't a lot of hope, I think, for people who sat outside of Carlton that Michael would make it through to the end of this year and get renewed.

Anyhow, almost before the season started, I thought, when the way it was playing out with Charlie Kernow leaving and a couple of other things going down.

So you go, well...

It was a challenging task for Michael to take on and, you know, we're not surprised we land here today.

But as I said, you know, a few weeks back, Michael needs to ask the question and he had to ask the question, you know.

And I wrote down, Vossie called it, the club done it.

That's exactly how it played out.

Michael said, no, this is going nowhere.

And the club said, yeah, we agree.